Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
ALAN BENNETTCulminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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